Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...because war is unstrategic at the moment, partly because the people fear that war will wreck the country. If we were to renounce the latter reason, and base our non-belligerency on strategy alone, as President Conant would have us do, our aid to Britain would not increase any faster than it is now. Then why is this decision essential to a defeat of the Axis at the present time...
...essentially the same as they have been for centuries, in spite of bombs and armored tanks. The basic idea drummed into future U. S. generals both in the R. O. T. C. and in the regular army is "Get there fustest with the mostest men," only now there are faster methods for getting there and newer ways to keep the other side away...
...Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, has measured velocities of 5.2 miles per second for "push" waves, a form imparting back and forward motion, which were travelling in the msterious upper mantle layer 21 miles below the surface of the earth. This is 1,440 miles per hour faster than any velocities yet recorded for this layer, and cannot be explained in terms of any familiar geological material or present theories about conditions of heat and pressure in the upper mantle layer...
...believes, a matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
...college freshmen have grown taller and heavier for a long time. The increase goes back 80 or 90 years, shows an inch of stature gain for each of four generations. Girls have grown longer-legged, bigger-waisted, smaller-hipped. They also have reached puberty earlier, a sign of faster growth...